Strategic Threat Intelligence Specialist
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Job description
The Strategic Threat Intelligence Specialist operates at Group level, analysing geopolitical, sector-specific, and adversary trends to anticipate threats before they materialise. The role ensures intelligence drives measurable risk reduction across Vodafone's global footprint.
- Produce strategic intelligence assessments on priority threat actors, campaigns, and emerging risks impacting telco, network and IT infrastructure.
- Mature and structure Vodafone's intelligence-sharing relationships across internal stakeholders to ensure intelligence is actionable and consistently drives risk reduction.
- Strengthen and grow external intelligence partnerships with entities such as NCSC, ISACs, peer telcos, and intelligence providers.
- Establish feedback loops to measure whether shared intelligence results in detection improvements, vulnerability remediation, control uplift, or mission activity.
- Translate geopolitical developments, sector targeting trends, and adversary evolution into clear risk implications for Vodafone's networks, platforms, estate, and supply chain.
- Brief senior leadership and stakeholders with concise, risk-based reporting that supports strategic decision-making.
- Support the development of structured threat missions aligned to priority adversaries, ensuring intelligence requirements are clearly defined and outcomes are tracked.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Telecommunication?, * Strong understanding of nation-state and financially motivated threat actors targeting telecoms and critical national infrastructure.
- Experience in building or maturing intelligence-sharing processes, including defining requirements, standardising outputs, and measuring impact.
- Ability to combine multiple intelligence sources into clear, defensible strategic assessments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and executive audiences.
- Experience engaging with external intelligence communities and leveraging trusted relationships to enhance internal security posture.
Benefits & conditions
Yearly bonus: 10% Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year Charity days: 5 days/year Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%. Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan
